The right-wing has had a rough week, but refusing to acknowledge reality always helps.1. Justice Antonin Scalia: "The 14th Amendment protects all races, not only the blacks."No friend of affirmative action, voting rights protections, or anything he deems "racial entitlements," the high court's least inhibited conservative was at it again this week during oral arguments in a
case in which advocates for minorities are challenging Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college admissions. The case reached the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court held the ban violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection guarantee, in that it prevents minorities from lobbying for racial preferences, when other groups can lobby for their favored programs, Huffpo explained.
A lawyer challenging the ban argued that the original goal of the 14th Amendment was to protect minority rights against a white majority.
Scalia begged to differ. "My goodness," he said. "I thought we've held that the 14th Amendment protects all races. I mean, that was the argument in the early years, that it protected only - only the blacks. But I thought we rejected that. You say now that we have to proceed as though its purpose is not to protect whites, only to protect minorities?"
A little history: the 14th Amendment was approved three years after the end of the Civil War, and it was definitely about protecting the rights of former slaves. Scalia has not made any secret of his view that the country is all done with that racism stuff. If anything, the pendulum has swung too far the other way, he seems to think.
Comment: Again we come back to the idea that a third party, through the Mossad, is purposely 'revealing NSA and GCHQ secrets'.
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